Example sentences of "most often [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The model most often cited by development economists is Ghana , which adopted IMF-backed reform in 1983 after its old protectionist ways stifled initiative and brought the economy to its knees . |
| 2 | It was the City banks with mercantile connections , rather than the West End houses used by the landed classes , who moved into this relationship — less surprising than it seems , for , as Joslin pointed out , the country banks had themselves most often grown from country merchant or manufacturing activities . |
| 3 | Generally the commonest medium-sized brown owl ; predominantly nocturnal and most often detected in daytime hunched up in its tree roost , being mobbed by smaller birds , when can be distinguished from Barn Owl by dark brown face and underparts and from Long-eared and Short-eared Owls ( p. 179 ) by black eyes and lack of ear-tufts . |
| 4 | The word is most often heard in response to an order to do something : fetch firewood , haul water , etc . |
| 5 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 6 | They have to be suspended from battens and are most often made from pre-finished , slotted insulation board , polystyrene or fibreglass . |
| 7 | Concepts and rules are most often taught by definition and description , and whilst this can be successful , given a good communication technique , it has the disadvantage of failing to produce generalisation . |
| 8 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 9 | The convention most often mistaken for logic is explicitness , which , he shows , is not the same thing at all . |
| 10 | The other reason most often given for government ownership is that government needs a voice of its own and can not rely on the privately owned press . |
| 11 | The imaginative subject — these are the subjects I find most often given in school today . |
| 12 | They are most often found on drawer divans . |
| 13 | FoE reiterated its call for an immediate ban on the use of two herbicides most often found in water , atrazine and simazine . |
| 14 | This remedy is most often needed in chest complaints and gastric or bowel disorders . |
| 15 | The treatment of choice most often reported for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus is surgery . |
| 16 | Designs on the screen are most often knitted from bottom to top , so looking for colours as they appear in the design from bottom to top and left to right is an accurate way of assessing where colours are brought into the work and their order . |
| 17 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 18 | The statistic most often used to measure within-group variability is the standard deviation , although there are other possibilities . |
| 19 | This method is most often used by market researchers , but is not unknown among sociologists . |
| 20 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |